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      <description>For work, I have been staying in hotels around the world, at a variety of price points, almost continuously for more than two years, and I’ve been surprised at how many of my personal bugbears are commonplace.
These are some of the most irritating:
1 Ignoring the ‘Do not disturb’ sign
This is usually the doing of impatient cleaners in hotels that haven’t devised a useful system whereby they are informed by reception when rooms have been vacated.

Cleaners assume the guest has checked out without...</description>
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      <title>9 common hotel complaints, from check-in and checkout times to Wi-fi problems to air con, heating and shower controls</title>
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